I agree with you partly, but if everyone did this, where would the innovation in CSS be? A lot of people that have done new things and pushed the envelope in C

I agree with you partly, but if everyone did this, where would the innovation in CSS be? A lot of people that have done new things and pushed the envelope in CSS seem to have brought skills from the print design world... With judicious use of images and some other techniques, almost anything can be done in CSS. It just shouldn't be the starting point for your visual design, imho.